Much has been written and spoken about the dumbing down of our nation for years. We'd rather concentrate on our favorite sports team or who will be competing on Dancing With the Stars this season than be bothered with what the asshole in chief is doing to our country. Yes, there are SOME who really care and who keep up with what's being done to our country and how it is governed but sadly, far too many are easily distracted.
tRump is a symptom of what ails us. The numbnuts who giddily pulled the lever to cast their vote for tRump are getting a taste of what they elected now that the chickens have come home to roost. Now that it is dawning on some of them that the ACA and Obamacare are one and the same and that it is THEIR disabled child who will be left out in the cold if "Obamacare" is repealed and replaced or JUST repealed, they are starting to listen a little closer to the rhetoric coming out of DC. NOW they get it. Too late since tRump seems firmly ensconced in the White House.
Oh, yes, the investigations are happening. Every. Single. Day. A new piece of this double sided, 10,000 piece puzzle falls into place. But don't count on him being ejected from his throne any time soon. The pundits and experts predict a long seige of investigations and hearings before we get down to the nitty gritty of it all. tRump is counting on this and unless they uncover something so egregious that he has no choice but to resign, he will be in place, infecting anything and everything with his brand of awfulness.
And we can't forget that as terrible as it sounds, the tRump faithful are still with us. The racists, the homophobes, the misogynists, the self-righteous ones have been given a license to come out from under their rocks to crow and preen among us. No shame. No self awareness. They will happily emulate their Dear Leader and be proud of it.
So sadly, we probably are at a new low. It would be easy to just blame tRump for this mess, but that isn't accurate. We have been victimized and taken hostage by something far bigger. trump was the guy out front, but who was the man behind the curtain? Putin has been watching from afar and knew exactly how to use tRump for his nefarious deeds. It sounds odd to say this, but tRump himself has been played by Putin. He helped put tRump in place and can just as easily have him removed or "eliminated".
What is still ahead for us is unfolding one sordid day at a time. The path is obscure and dark. Putin has pulled off his greatest hat trick and we're slowly unwinding exactly how he did it. But part of the truth is we were ripe for the picking. Too busy to be worried about the details of trump's Make America Great Again campaign. Too distracted to ask enough questions. Too deluded to wonder what leadership by a crass, clueless buffoon would really mean. Not all of us, mind you, fit this description, but enough that just a little manipulation of the vote, skimming here and there in just the right places could totally change the outcome of the election.
We are in for a rough ride. Those of us who didn't fall for trump's easy answers, hateful rhetoric and crass bloviating are being hurt by this reign of terror just as much as the ones who happily helped put the mobster in place. We are the ones who know what might have been and what we have instead. Meanwhile, a few on the other side are slowly waking up as the wicked plans of tRump are enshrined in our bureacracies and are coming down the pike to a school or health care facility near you. We'd better buckle up because tRump and Putin are not finished with us yet. In fact, they're just getting started.
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